Amelia County during the period 1764-1768 included territory that is now Amelia and Nottoway Counties. There were two Church of England parishes within the county during that time: Raleigh Parish (the territory that is now Amelia) and Nottoway Parish (the territory that is now Nottoway County). Nottoway County and Parish were cut off in 1788. [Charles Francis Cocke, Parish Lines Diocese of Southern Virginia (Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1964), 204-205, 223-224, map on 255] Neither parish has any surviving records for the time period in question. Raleigh Parish has a vestry book with entries 1790, 1827-1895, but no vital records during the colonial period. Some entries, 1794-1795, from the register of John Cameron, are all that exist from Nottoway Parish. [A Guide to Church Records in the Library of Virginia, 2nd ed. (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 2002), 66, 84] You should see if the family might be registered occasionally in nearby parishes. Unfortunately, almost all the surrounding parishes are also missing registers for the colonial period. Bristol Parish (just east of Raleigh Parish) has a register (births only), 1720-1789. [Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, The Vestry Book and Register of Bristol Parish, Virginia, 1720-1789 (1898; repr. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1998)] A register kept by Rev. William Douglas of St. James Northam Parish, Goochland County, also contains entries from surrounding counties that he visited. I can't say if it includes anyone from Amelia. It covers the period 1750-1797 [W. Mac. Jones, The Douglas Register (Richmond: 1928; repr. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1973)] The Society of Friends (Quakers) have records of Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting, established 1739, which covered all or parts of thirteen Virginia counties, including Amelia. Amelia or Johnson's Particular Meeting was establshed in 1755. The Cedar Creek meeting house was located in Hanover County. If your family were Quakers, they might appear in those records. [William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, v. 6, Virginia (Ann Arbor: 1950; repr. Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1973): 223-282] For most persons doing research in this time period (the whole colonial period) you are very lucky if you find pertinent church registers. Other possible sources of vital records for that time: - Family Bible records and registers maintained by early family historians. - Notices in newspapers (marriages and deaths). - Tombstones. - Probate records (estimated date of death, stated and implied relationships, evidence of daughters' marriages) - Chancery lawsuits (stated and implied relationships, implied ages, stated dates of events) - Depositions in lawsuits (stated ages). - Deeds (stated and implied relationships, implied ages) - Guardianship cases (stated and implied relationships, implied ages) - Indentures/apprenticeships (relationships, stated ages and birthdates) - Tax/tithable lists (evidence of deaths, implied and stated relationships, implied ages) Various documents may be used in tandem to arrive at reliable estimates of the dates and places of events in a person's life. Hope the above helps you in your search. Donald L. Wilson, Virginiana Librarian, Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center for Genealogy and Local History (RELIC), Prince William Public Library System, Bull Run Regional Library, 8051 Ashton Avenue, Manassas, VA 20110-2892 703-792-4540 www.pwcgov.org/library/relic To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html